Analysis of movement metabolista-japanese study obejto capsule tower architect kurokawa

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research aims to introduce an even brief analysis metabolista movement that developed in Japan in the second half of the twentieth century. We present the characteristics of this movement, to then analyze the tower designed by architect Kurokama capsule. Japan's struggle to find a new architectural identity after the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was painful to early 60s, the influence on the new generation of architects until then was Le Corbusier, by Kenzo Tange and Tadao Ando, this was period that a group of young architects and critics has emerged as a kind of philosophy that founded new ideas taken from traditional Japanese design, architecture and pop of Le Corbusier and gave it the name of Metabolism. The metabolism name intended to suggest a biological design in buildings and cities that grew to meet the new requirements in a manner parallel nature, making full use of the latest and innovative construction technologies and forms of communication. The beginning of movement exhibited a series of imaginary projects and on this stage, the work considers the object of study with the Tower capsule, the architect Kurokawa, one of the only buildings completed. Keyword: Post Modernism. Japanese Metabolism. Tower capsule.